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SELECTIONS FROM THE<br/>
<span class=large>BOOK OF MOSES</span>
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CHAPTER 3
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(June—October 1830)
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God created all things spiritually before they were naturally upon the earth—First man and first flesh created—Woman a help meet for man.
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Thus</span> the <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/3/1a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Creation.">heaven</a> and the earth were finished, and all the <sup>b</sup><a href="moses/3/1b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 2: 1; D&C 29: 36; D&C 38: 1; D&C 45: 1; Abr. 5: 1.">host</a> of them.
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And on the seventh day I, God, ended my work, and all things which I had made; and I <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/3/2a" mark="a" type="C" title="Gen. 2: 2 (1-3); Abr. 5: 2 (1-3); TG Rest.">rested</a> on the <sup>b</sup><a href="moses/3/2b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Sabbath.">seventh</a> day from all my work, and all things which I had made were finished, and I, God, saw that they were good;
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And I, God, <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/3/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 20: 11; Mosiah 13: 19; D&C 77: 12.">blessed</a> the seventh day, and <sup>b</sup><a href="moses/3/3b" mark="b" type="A" title="Abr. 5: 3 (1-3).">sanctified</a> it; because that in it I had rested from all my <sup>c</sup><a href="moses/3/3c" mark="c" type="A" title="Ex. 31: 15 (14-15); Mosiah 13: 18 (16-19).">work</a> which I, God, had created and made.
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And now, behold, I say unto you, that these are the generations of the heaven and of the earth, when they were <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/3/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 2: 4 (4-5); Abr. 5: 4 (4-5).">created</a>, in the day that I, the Lord God, made the <sup>b</sup><a href="moses/3/4b" mark="b" type="A" title="Neh. 9: 6.">heaven</a> and the earth,
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And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew.  For I, the Lord God, <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/3/5a" mark="a" type="C" title="Moses 6: 51; TG Creation; TG God, Creator.">created</a> all things, of which I have spoken, <sup>b</sup><a href="moses/3/5b" mark="b" type="C" title="Abr. 3: 23; D&C 29: 31-34; TG Life, Sanctity of; TG Spirit Creation.">spiritually</a>, before they were <sup>c</sup><a href="moses/3/5c" mark="c" type="C" title="Moses 3: 9; TG Man, Physical Creation of.">naturally</a> upon the face of the earth.  For I, the Lord God, had not caused it to rain upon the face of the earth.  And I, the Lord God, had <sup>d</sup><a href="moses/3/5d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Man, a Spirit Child of Heavenly Father.">created</a> all the children of men; and not yet a man to till the <sup>e</sup><a href="moses/3/5e" mark="e" type="A" title="Gen. 2: 5.">ground</a>; for in <sup>f</sup><a href="moses/3/5f" mark="f" type="B" title="TG Heaven.">heaven</a> <sup>g</sup><a href="moses/3/5g" mark="g" type="B" title="TG Man, Antemortal Existence of.">created</a> I them; and there was not yet flesh upon the earth, neither in the water, neither in the air;
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But I, the Lord God, spake, and there went up a <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/3/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 2: 6.">mist</a> from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
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And I, the Lord God, formed man from the <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/3/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 2: 7; Moses 4: 25 (25-29); Moses 6: 59; Abr. 5: 7.">dust</a> of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the <sup>b</sup><a href="moses/3/7b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Breath of Life.">breath</a> of life; and <sup>c</sup><a href="moses/3/7c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Adam.">man</a> became a living <sup>d</sup><a href="moses/3/7d" mark="d" type="C" title="Isa. 57: 16; TG Soul.">soul</a>, the <sup>e</sup><a href="moses/3/7e" mark="e" type="A" title="Moses 1: 34.">first</a> flesh upon the earth, the first man also; nevertheless, all things were before created; but spiritually were they created and made according to my word.
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And I, the Lord God, planted a garden eastward in <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/3/8a" mark="a" type="C" title="Isa. 51: 3; TG Eden.">Eden</a>, and there I put the man whom I had formed.
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And out of the ground made I, the Lord God, to grow every tree, <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/3/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Moses 3: 5.">naturally</a>, that is pleasant to the sight of man; and man could behold it.  And it became also a <sup>b</sup><a href="moses/3/9b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Life, Sanctity of.">living</a> soul.  For it was spiritual in the day that I created it; for it remaineth in the sphere in which I, God, created it, yea, even all things which I prepared for the use of man; and man saw that it was good for food.  And I, the Lord God, planted the <sup>c</sup><a href="moses/3/9c" mark="c" type="A" title="Gen. 2: 9; 1 Ne. 11: 25; 1 Ne. 15: 22 (22, 28, 36); Alma 42: 5 (2-6); Moses 4: 28 (28, 31); Abr. 5: 9.">tree</a> of life also in the midst of the garden, and also the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
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And I, the Lord God, caused a river to go out of <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/3/10a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Eden.">Eden</a> to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four <sup>b</sup><a href="moses/3/10b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 2: 10.">heads</a>.
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And I, the Lord God, called the name of the first Pison, and it compasseth the whole land of <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/3/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 2: 11.">Havilah</a>, where I, the Lord God, created much gold;
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And the gold of that land was good, and there was bdellium and the <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/3/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 25: 7.">onyx</a> stone.
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And the name of the second river was called Gihon; the same that compasseth the whole land of <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/3/13a" mark="a" type="E" title="IE In the area of Eden and Adam-ondi-Ahman there were rivers and lands that received names that were later attached to other lands and rivers. As to the location of Eden and its environs, see D&C 117: 8-9; Gen. 2: 13.">Ethiopia</a>.
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And the name of the third river was Hiddekel; that which goeth toward the east of Assyria.  And the fourth river was the Euphrates.
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And I, the Lord God, took the man, and put him into the Garden of <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/3/15a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Eden.">Eden</a>, to dress it, and to keep it.
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And I, the Lord God, commanded the man, saying: Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat,
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But of the tree of the <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/3/17a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Knowledge.">knowledge</a> of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it, nevertheless, thou mayest <sup>b</sup><a href="moses/3/17b" mark="b" type="C" title="Moses 7: 32; TG Agency.">choose</a> for thyself, for it is given unto thee; but, remember that I <sup>c</sup><a href="moses/3/17c" mark="c" type="A" title="2 Ne. 2: 15.">forbid</a> it, for in the <sup>d</sup><a href="moses/3/17d" mark="d" type="A" title="Abr. 5: 13.">day</a> thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely <sup>e</sup><a href="moses/3/17e" mark="e" type="C" title="Gen. 2: 17; Moses 4: 17 (17-19); TG Mortality.">die</a>.
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And I, the Lord God, said unto mine <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/3/18a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Divine Sonship.">Only</a> Begotten, that it was not good that the man should be <sup>b</sup><a href="moses/3/18b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Family, Eternal.">alone</a>; wherefore, I will make an <sup>c</sup><a href="moses/3/18c" mark="c" type="A" title="Gen. 2: 18; Abr. 5: 14.">help</a> meet for him.
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And out of the ground I, the Lord God, formed every <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/3/19a" mark="a" type="C" title="Prov. 12: 10; D&C 29: 24 (24-25); D&C 49: 19 (18-21); D&C 77: 2; TG Creation.">beast</a> of the field, and every fowl of the air; and commanded that they should come unto Adam, to see what he would call them; and they were also living souls; for I, God, breathed into them the <sup>b</sup><a href="moses/3/19b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Breath of Life.">breath</a> of life, and commanded that whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that should be the name thereof.
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And Adam gave <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/3/20a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Language.">names</a> to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but as for Adam, there was not found an help meet for him.
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And I, the Lord God, caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam; and he slept, and I took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh in the stead thereof;
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And the rib which I, the Lord God, had taken from man, made I a <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/3/22a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Creation; TG Woman.">woman</a>, and brought her unto the man.
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And <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/3/23a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Adam.">Adam</a> said: This I know now is bone of my bones, and <sup>b</sup><a href="moses/3/23b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 2: 23; Jacob 2: 21; Abr. 5: 17.">flesh</a> of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man.
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Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/3/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 2: 24 (23-24); D&C 42: 22; D&C 49: 15 (15-16); Abr. 5: 18 (17-18).">cleave</a> unto his <sup>b</sup><a href="moses/3/24b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Family, Love within.">wife</a>; and <sup>c</sup><a href="moses/3/24c" mark="c" type="A" title="Eccl. 4: 9 (9-12).">they</a> shall be <sup>d</sup><a href="moses/3/24d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Divorce; TG Marriage, Celestial.">one</a> flesh.
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And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
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